• chevy9294
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    9 months ago

    I have 11 years old phone that still gets updates. For free. And all my computers will have updates for ever. For free.

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        9 months ago

        You’d be surprised at what the custom ROM communities manage to achieve. The Galaxy S3 (not 23, I really mean S3) can run Android 11 or 12.

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          9 months ago

          It’s no surprise, if the hardware can take it then why not? It should be the default. Maybe the current EU can tackle all this built-in obsolescence from Big Tech.

          The real surprise is people devoting their free time in maintaining those communities, kudos to them. Eventually my current phone will get Lineage.

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        9 months ago

        Galaxy S4, (was) officially supported by LineageOS :)

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          9 months ago

          oh dope. I’m on graphene run, so I think that gives me 7 years, but 11 is impressive. any idea how long they plan on supporting it? also, is that your daily? I feel like a phone that old would be quite slow by now.

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            9 months ago

            My daily is Pixel 7a with GrapheneOS. Galaxy S4 is my mom’s old old old phone. I have no idea how. On lineageos wiki it says that this device is not maintained anymore, but a month ago I got a system update. It’s on Linegae 18.